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Christopher Anderson

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About

Christopher was born and raised in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago and studied history and religion at the University of Illinois before pursuing separate master's degrees in theology and history. He specialized in environmental ministry, ecotheology, and church history at LSTC before researching the social history of religion in 19th-century America at NIU. His avocations include hiking, camping, fishing, and long-distance running.

May 2014, Lutheran Confessions Prize for “Martin Luther’s Anthropology in an Age of Overpopulation,”, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

May 2014, Bible and Lutheran Faith Prize for “Deuteronomy 23:24-25 and Allemänsratten: A Cross-Cultural Comparison", Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

July 2013, Eugene D’Aquili Prize for the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation for “Food, Religion, and the Embedded Mind,”, Institute for Religion in an Age of Science

November 2012, Grand Prize for Best Poster Presentation for “Epic Education for the Care of Creation,”, Zygon Center for Religion and Science

Education

B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
M.A.T.S. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 2014
M.A. Northern Illinois University, 2016
Expected completion of Ph.D. in 2021

Courses Taught:

University of Illinois at Chicago:

HIST 100 -Western Civilization to 1648
HIST 101 –Western Civilization since 1648
HIST 104 –Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization
HIST/INST 105 –Global Transformations and the Rise of the West Since 1000
HIST 137 -Russia in War and Revolution